{"id":21550,"date":"2014-04-13T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=21550"},"modified":"2014-04-13T17:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T15:00:11","slug":"fruit-flies-fighter-jets-use-similar-evasive-tactics-when-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/04\/13\/fruit-flies-fighter-jets-use-similar-evasive-tactics-when-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked<\/a><\/p>\n

When startled by predators,\u00a0tiny fruit flies respond like fighter jets \u2013 employing screaming-fast banked turns to evade attacks<\/a>. Researchers at the University of Washington used an array of high-speed video cameras operating at 7,500 frames a second to capture the wing and body motion of flies after they encountered a looming image of an approaching predator (abstract<\/a>). ‘We discovered that fruit flies alter course in less than one one-hundredth of a second, 50 times faster than we blink our eyes, and which is faster than we ever imagined.’ In the midst of a banked turn, the flies can roll on their sides 90 degrees or more, almost flying upside down at times, said Florian Muijres, a UW postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the paper. ‘These flies normally flap their wings 200 times a second and, in almost a single wing beat, the animal can reorient its body to generate a force away from the threatening stimulus and then continues to accelerate,’ he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

First there was the anternet<\/a>, and now this? \u00a0It almost sounds like humans a giant insects…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked When startled by predators,\u00a0tiny fruit flies respond like fighter jets \u2013 employing screaming-fast banked turns to evade attacks. Researchers at the University of Washington used an array of high-speed video cameras operating at 7,500 frames a second to capture the wing and body motion of … Continue reading Fruit Flies, Fighter Jets Use Similar Evasive Tactics When Attacked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2985,2414,338,1117,655,866],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-21550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","tag-biology","tag-insects","tag-military","tag-research","tag-science","tag-weapons","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22011,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/18\/smoothini-bar-magician-flies-through-amazing-tricks\/","url_meta":{"origin":21550,"position":0},"title":"Smoothini: Bar Magician Flies Through Amazing Tricks","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 18, 2014","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZTy3qG_qInU","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/ZTy3qG_qInU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20230,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/04\/international-space-station-assembly\/","url_meta":{"origin":21550,"position":1},"title":"International Space Station Assembly","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 4, 2014","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yRqUPjl3tTQ Absolutely amazing! \u00a0Humans have created this complex structure, bit by bit, while it flies 370 kilometers high and covers over 7 kilometers per second! \u00a0And while there are actual humans inside it too. 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